1) Yes, Russia is in fact worse than USA. This does not change that USA did and is doing evil things.

2) At least in my case Russia is directly targeting my country, while USA does not (in general, far away empires are less dangerous than nearby ones)

3) In addition Russia is more resource constrained so getting the same amount of funds benefits them more

4) USA is also doing plenty of non-evil things while for Russia this activity are much much smaller part of their spending